Article from unknown source with handwritten date of February 1957. Extracted from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri. Harve Hall Retires "Harve Hall, rural mail carrier of Route 4, is retiring due to his age and health. His retirement will become effective November 30th. Hall, sixty-eight years old, was born on a farm south of Madison and has spent his entire life in the Madison community. He and Mrs. Hall and their son, George, who is an employee of the state highway department, live in north Madison where the Halls went to housekeeping. At the time Mr. Hall started carrying the mail there weren't any gravel roads in Monroe county. At the present time, his route is graveled all but about three miles. Route 4 covered twenty-eight miles when he first was carrier. At the present time, the route takes in forty-eight miles. Hall, like other rural carriers, could relate many humorous as well as sad incidents that have taken place while as a carrier. He started with the horse and cart and horseback for transportation but a few years later he started out in a Model T, then came the Model A. Hall says that during his almost forty-three years as rural carrier, he had bought thirty -one Chevrolets from Del Miles. Mr. Hall, for many years, has been quite active in stock buying and trading." Copyright notice: All transcriptions in this email are copyrighted by their creator. They may not be reproduced on another site or on any printed or recorded media, CD, etc. without specific written permission from Kathleen Wilham. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which it is presented, transcriptions, notes & comments, etc. is. It is however quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use only. Permission is granted to public libraries, and genealogical and historical societies to print and bind for the use of their patrons. Kathleen Wilham 2 Sharon Drive Shelbina, MO. 63468-1562